Update: Reader Challenge Month PRIZES!!

Hi everyone! We are just a little over a week from kicking off our September Reader Challenge Month and today I’m here to talk about the good stuff… PRIZES! And you guys, our sponsors have really come through for us and they are fabulous!

First off, if you have no idea what I am talking about, check out this post to learn all about what we have planned for the month. The quick version is that each week in September we have a different reading challenge. The Joyfully Jay gang will be challenging ourselves with a variety of books each week. And you all can play along too. And if you do, you can get entered to win our amazing prizes!

Ok, so first, how do you enter? Well, there are two ways to get giveaway entries:

Comment on a Challenge Month review post: Each week we will be reviewing a bunch of books for the challenge. They will all be marked accordingly with our challenge logo, plus tagged in the little pink box at the end. Leave a relevant comment, and you are entered. Easy! You can enter on each one of the review posts. The number varies per week, but if you comment on each post, you can enter somewhere around 8-10 times depending on the week.

Read a challenge book: You can join us in our reading challenge by reading a book that fits that week’s theme. It can be one of the books we are reading, or a book of your own choice. Each Friday, there will be a wrap up post where you can share info about your book to enter for that week’s giveaway. Reading a challenge book gets you 10 entries. Yep, massive entries if you read along! You will need to leave a mini review on Friday’s post (nothing major, a quick paragraph of your thoughts is more than fine — don’t panic!), then you are entered.

So, if you comment on all the reviews, and do a reading challenge of your own, you can earn up to 20 entries for the week. Easy right? Then, at the end of the month, we have a grand prize and everyone who earned entries along the way will be added in to the giveaway for the grand prize.

Ok, so what can you win? Well thanks to some very generous sponsorship, we have some awesome prizes. Here they are:

Week 1: New-to-Me Author Challenge (Sponsored by Samhain Publishing)

Ebooks and swag prize pack full of books by authors new to Samhain in 2015, including:

Drawing the Devil by Jon Keys

Uncovering Ray by Edie Danford

Rite of Summer by Tess Bowery

Fleur de Nuit by Cat Montmorency

Not by Boyfriend by Monica Anderson

Cravings Creek by Mel Bossa

Dark Economy by M. Keedwell

House of the Rising Son by Trepan Rogers

Week 2: TBR Pile Challenge (Sponsored by Dreamspinner Press)

Dreamspinner Press is giving away an iPad Mini filled with all of their summer releases, plus a vintage spiral book rack (without the books)!

Week 3: Genre Challenge (Sponsored by Less Than Three Press)

Less Than Three is giving away ebook copies all of their September releases, plus a choice of audiobook from their catalog. This includes releases in a wide variety of genres, such as fantasy, paranormal, contemporary, and even horror.

Week 4: Favorites Week (Sponsored by Samhain)

Ebooks and swag prize pack of Samhain fabulous favorites, including:

The World as he Sees it by A.M. Arthur

The Shepherd and the Solicitor by Bonnie Dee and Summer Devon

Lonely Hearts by Heidi Cullinan

Played! by J.L. Merrow

The Secret Casebook of Simon Feximal by K.J. Charles

Song of the Navigator by Astrid Amara

Nothing Like Paris by Amy Jo Cousins

Deep Desire by Z.A. Maxfield

Grand Prize (Sponsored by Riptide Publishing)

Riptide is giving Advanced Review Copies of 12 of their books that publish in September and beyond! For most of these titles, you will get them well before they are even released, in special paperback format made just for the trades for review (so there are usually only about 10 of each book in this form in existence!). Books include:

Bane by Amelia C. Gormley – Releases September 21

Rough Road by Vanessa North — Releases September 28

Lesson for Sleeping Dogs by Charlie Cochrane — Releases Oct 12

Minotaur by J.A. Rock — Releases Oct 19

Dead Ringer by Heidi Belleau and Sam Schooler — Releases Oct 26

A Fortunate Blizzard by L.C. Chase — Releases Nov 2

Tribute: The Complete Series — Releases Nov 2

Rebound Remedy by Christine d’Abo – Releases Nov 9

Y Negative by Kelly Haworth — Releases Nov 16

Blueberry Boys by Vanessa North — Releases Nov 30

Winter Oranges by Marie Sexton – Releases Nov 30

Subs Club by J.A. Rock – Releases Dec 7

The winner will get all these books shipped at the end of September, so you will get your copies WAY before anyone else gets their hands on them! (International winners: due to high shipping costs, Riptide can’t send paperbacks overseas. International folks will get copies of all of these books in ebook form the Saturday before they are released.)

So that is the list of prizes! Pretty awesome, right? A big thank you to Riptide, Samhain, Dreamspinner and Less Than Three for their generosity! The event will officially kick off on Tuesday, September 1st. Next week I will have the formal kick off post with all the fine print and more details on exactly how to enter. Also, please don’t feel any obligation to buy books. I am sure almost everyone has books that will fit with the challenge topics and I’m not going to be policing you for accuracy. We just want everyone to have fun and encourage folks to pick up some books they may not normally grab.

This looks great! I’ve been going through my existing ebook library and realized that I have enough unread books matching all four weeks challenges to participate without buying anything new (not sure yet whether I’m happy or sad about it though, it would have made a great excuse for getting a new book, right?!). Some books I had even forgotten I had.

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Welcome to Joyfully Jay! My name is Jay and I started this blog because I love to read and wanted a place to share my thoughts with other readers and lovers of romance. Joyfully Jay kicked off back in September 2011 and we are growing bigger every day! We review primarily romance featuring men, but we also review all kinds of LGBTQ romance here, as well as literary fiction and non-fiction. In addition to book reviews, we host daily author guest posts and regular giveaways. So lots of fun stuff and we keep quite busy here! …read more